Abbeyleix railway station served the town of
Abbeyleix
Abbeyleix (; ) is a town in County Laois, Ireland, located around south of the county town of Portlaoise.
Abbeyleix was formerly located on the N8, the main road from Dublin to Cork. At one point, up to 15,000 vehicles passed along the town' ...
in
County Laois,
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
.
The station opened on 1 March 1865. Passenger services were withdrawn on 1 January 1963 by the
CIÉ
Córas Iompair Éireann (''Irish Transport Company''), or CIÉ, is a statutory corporation of Ireland, answerable to the Irish Government and responsible for most public transport within the republic and jointly with its Northern Ireland counter ...
.
History
Opened by the Kilkenny Junction Railway, by the beginning of the 20th century the station was run by the
Great Southern and Western Railway. It was absorbed into the
Great Southern Railways in 1925.
The station was then nationalised, passing on to the
Córas Iompair Éireann as a result of the Transport Act, 1944
[
] which took effect from 1 January 1945. It was closed in 1963.
The clock which was in the waiting room at the station and a working scale model of the station can be seen at Heritage House, Abbeyleix.
References
Further reading
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External links
Heritage House
Disused railway stations in County Laois
Railway stations opened in 1865
Railway stations closed in 1963
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